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...beginning in 1938, TIME'S brilliant and influential drama critic; in Wellesley, Mass. Kronenberger came to the theater from the world of New York book publishing. Though he subsequently spent thousands of hours in aisle seats, he sometimes seemed to find Broadway lacking in the style, elegance and wit that characterized the drama and literature of his favorite century, the 18th, about which he fashioned fascinating books such as Kings and Desperate Men, a survey of 18th century England, Marlborough 's Duchess, a biography of Sarah Churchill, and an anthology called The Portable Johnson and Boswell...
...decade and the desultory time frame of Ann Beattie's second novel. Her first, Chilly Scenes of Winter, was filmed last year as Head over Heels, and her short stories have been collected in two books, Distortions (1976) and Secrets and Surprises (1979). Beattie, 32, writes with quiet wit and subdued sympathy about the states of mind that have become the clichés of middle-class malaise. One need not elaborate, except to say that after 30 years of postwar fiction, American writers appear to have reversed Tolstoy's happy-family dictum. It now appears that...
Though Ted Kennedy may not be endowed with John Kennedy's wit and intelligence or with the heart of Robert Kennedy, he has shown himself to have the guts of a street fighter. He always comes back. A man with the guts, determination and perseverance of a Ted Kennedy would serve the country well in the Oval Office...
...startling. Last fall and early winter, he sometimes seemed to lose his concentration in the middle of a speech and wander through rambling, almost incoherent sentences. Now he raps out short, crisp remarks, sometimes punching at the air like a boxer for emphasis, and spices his delivery with sarcastic wit. Deriding Carter's claims that decontrol of oil prices will spur more domestic exploration for petroleum, he notes that Mobil several years ago used some of its rising profits to buy Montgomery Ward. He asks: "How much oil do you think they'll discover drilling in the aisles of Montgomery...
...français, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Garden Party, perhaps half a dozen others-leaped beyond the traditional 19th century tale in a few quick, bright strokes. Although they were short on narrative, the pieces proved startlingly fresh, almost hallucinatory in their vividness, yet anchored in wit and ruthless reportage...